We’ve rented the three Fantômas movies with Louis de Funès. Yesterday we watched the first one of them, Fantômas (1964).
Weird.
I don’t recommend it. Claudia was telling how I really should watch a Louis de Funès movie, and her mother recommended a few, but unfortunately Fantômas was the only one they had at the rental. Oh well.
I think James Travers says it all:
“[...] the film is also marred by a rather obvious attempt to compete with the James Bond films, which were as popular in France at the time as they were elsewhere. In fact, with their obsession with gadgets, girls and interminable chase sequences, the three Fantômas films of the 1960s come much closer to sending up the Sean Connery bond films than anything else. The overall design of the film, particularly the gaudy sets stuffed with incomprehensible scientific paraphernalia, has that unmistakable kitsch 1960s feel to it.” ¹
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Ich kenne die Fantôme Filme nicht, aber Louis de Funès war mir immer zu bloed. Zu nervoes, zu schusselig, einfach zu dumm. Ich konnte da nicht lachen. Aber Jaques Tati in “Les vacances de M. Hulot”, da konnte ich mich totlachen ueber ganz einfache komische Situationen. Alles in Ruhe. ohne Gehuddel.
– Helmut Schroeder 2006-08-18 20:21 UTC
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Ich wollte eigentlich genau nervös & schusselig sehen. Claudia hat mir immer davon erzählt, und ich kannte ihn nicht.
– Alex Schroeder 2006-08-18 22:48 UTC
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Bitte unbedingt “la grande vadrouille” mit bourvil und de funès sehen! Meiner meinung nach, der einzige intelligente UND lustige fil mit louis de funès. Schwarz-weiss, nimmt die engländer/franzosen im 2. weltkrieg aufs korn... Herrlich!
– mom 2006-08-30 20:06 UTC